March 24, 2014 Buddha!!!

March 24, 2014

Buddha!!

 

Hey Family!!

 

We are starting week four of the transfer and I cannot figure out where the time has gone!!  I am more than halfway done with my mission now!!

Last Monday me and Sister Lee headed out to a mountain to visit one of the biggest Buddha’s in Asia.  It was a beautiful day and I was in the mountains so I was so happy!!  Though, we thought we were going to die walking up the billions of stairs to the Buddha...we are a little out of shape!!  The Buddha was massive and there were a bunch of temples too.  The cool part was seeing some people praying and we even got in a twenty minute conversation with a man on the mountain and learned a lot about Buddhism, or I at least tried to understand^^  It was the perfect p-day and I am going to continue to spend p-days in the mountains, my happy place^^

This week while proselyting I had way too many people  stroking my hair, a weird experience when you have no idea who they are...On Wednesday we were waiting to meet someone by the bus terminal and all the sudden this lady comes up to us and I hear, "missionary?"  I turned around and seriously this lady looked like a witch and acted like it too.  She was stroking my hair and saying how blonde hair is so much softer, poking at some zit on my face saying who knows what, saying my companion looks like a fox (very offensive in Korea), asking really weird questions, all with her disgustingly smelly breath in my face!!  Quite the experience and it gave us a good laugh.  We’ve have had the most random proselyting experiences lately.

That same day we met our new investigator who is from Kenya. He is so awesome and was really excited to receive the Book Of Mormon cause it could help him come closer to God.  We had to meet in a cafe so it was really loud but we taught him about Joseph Smith and he listened really well.  After we taught him he talked for about half an hour about the power of scriptures, prayer, and especially faith.  His words were so powerful and I really learned a lot from him about faith and the power of believing.  I think he is going to teach us as much or more than we teach him.  It is also super cute hearing my companion trying to speak English, she is really trying and I think it makes her realize what it is like to be an American missionary in Korea.

Friday, a woman in our ward invited us to come to her English group.  There are about 12 women in her group that get together every week to practice English.  It felt like just like I was out to lunch with Mom and Shauna again^^  They spoke English really well and we talked a lot about their kids and other things about their week and later during break time they were asking me questions about my family and parents and our relationship, and don't worry I only had good things to say.  Parenting style in Korea is much different I think. They also asked some questions about the Church and I think we will continue to attend cause there is definitely some potential to meet separately with some of the women.

Sunday!!  My Birthday!!  Nothing too exciting to tell, but Sister Hingano and Sister Cho woke me up at 6:30 with a Birthday cake, candles, and Happy Birthday which was so sweet.  Cake for breakfast is always the best^^  They continued to serenade me with a billion different versions of Happy Birthday throughout the day. 

All in all it was a great week^^  We are having lots of success right now in finding investigators through our English program, so I am having to learn to teach English really quickly.  If anyone has good ideas they would be much appreciated!!

 

I love you!!

Love,

 

Sister Jacklin